Let me tell you about my{{ BeSt FrIeNd}}

These past couple of weeks have been super emotional for me. I have burst into tears too many times to count just at the thought of my best friend in the States and her precious family. A week from Friday their family will be legally adopting their two sweet, precious, amazing, adorable children. I dream of being able to be home for the adoption { literally, I have dreamt about it every night for the past eight days } and if we had the money for me to fly home I would be there in a heartbeat, like tomorrow. I am still holding out a glimmer of hope that God will move a mountain and somehow it will be able to happen, but if it doesn't then I figured the next best thing would be to pay my best friend a little tribute on the good ole blog.

Amanda,
You are one of the most amazing people I have ever met in my entire life. You are faithful, gentle, loving, full of grace, patient, so kind, loyal, and so much more. I admire you and watching you walk out your life with such surrender to God gives me such encouragement in my own life. I have watched you enter new and sometimes scary territories with doing foster care, and have seen you and Andy thrive and build a precious family all because you were both willing to take a step of faith and trust God with your lives and futures. You {and Andy!} are the most loyal friends in the world. You are always willing to help Brian and I out, whether it be sitting on your kitchen floor with fifty pounds of raw chicken needing to be made for VBS, painting the outside of our house in the FREEZING cold, moving from our house to our mobile home, our mobile home to my parents house, and the grand finale of packing into the morning hours for our move to Africa, Brian and I always know you both are there whenever and for whatever we need. You are so much more than just a friend, you are truly my sister. I know the relationship between our families is a unique and very special bond. Two families that are more like one big happy family, the Louderyes. :) Thank you for always being just a phone call away and listening to every one of my silly little problems like what I was going through was the most important thing in the world. I miss game nights, park dates, Papa Murphy's BBQ chicken pizza, late night runs to DQ and Casey's, doing garage sales together, watching our kids play together, and so much more. I am so blessed to have you as my sister. I can not ever express how proud of you I am. I miss you every day. I am so incredibly happy for your family and cannot wait to see pictures from the adoption. I remember the night B and G came to your house, and look at them now. They are thriving, loved, happy, beautiful children! I love you and can't wait to see you again!!